Pune was earlier classified in the level 3 category. As the COVID-19 positivity rate went below 5 per cent, the city has now been reclassified in the level 2 category
PCMC will again ‘stamp’ home-isolation patients
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: May 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
Authority to take criminal action against offenders in twin towns
The
PCMC) which has already reported 2,11,000
COVID cases and a total of 1,600 deaths in the twin township has been struggling to rein in the spread of the virus.
Despite measures, many home quarantine patients have been reportedly roaming the streets casually, acting like spreaders. The civic body is faced with a shortage of manpower and also lack of infra-structure, and has found it difficult to identify and nab the culprits. PCMC chief Rajesh
Patil has, therefore, decided to bring back the earlier practice wherein the authorities would mark home-isolation patients with
PMC expects 100 staffers to trace 24,000 contacts of patients daily
PMC expects 100 staffers to trace 24,000 contacts of patients daily
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Mar 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
AUTHORITIES REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES
Severe lack of manpower as all staff designated to contact tracing are back in their original depts after last year’s
COVID crisis peak; with fresh rise in cases, ward-level teams struggle with impossible expectations, demand that senior officials wake up before things worsen
n a 24-hour burst on Saturday, the Pune Metropolitan Region (
PMR) recorded around 2,000 fresh COVID-19 cases the highest seen since October 9 last year.
Pune Municipal Corporation (
PMC) areas individually added 963 cases, making the situation more serious for city limits. Every day, dozens of patients are once again losing the battle to the novel coronavirus.
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Watch: Bus catches fire in Wagholi, one dies
Watch: Bus catches fire in Wagholi, one dies
Mirror Online / Updated: Feb 22, 2021, 12:53 IST
The biker identified as
A
Wagholi on Monday morning.
A biker, identified as Ajinkya Yeole, died in the incident.
According to preliminary information, the incident happened on the Pune-Ahmednagar Road in Wagholi due to a crash between a bike and a bus.
Pune: A PMPML bus catches fire in Wagholi on Monday morning
00:20
The fire resulted in thick plumes of smoke coming out of the bus. Some passers-by also stopped to see the bus going up in flames.
More details awaited.